I was raised in Central Louisiana and knew of Cleco since its beginning. My first contact with Mr. Coughlin was at his office in the old ice house on Rapids Avenue soliciting his use of my new aircraft charter business. He became a good customer, friend and farther image to me.

Shortly after that I began buying stock in his business and anyone who said anything bad about Cleco was in for a lecture as would any employee that worked there.

If Mr. Coughlin knew what the current CEO and his imported board were up to he would come out of his grave.

My wife and I will oppose a sale and encourage stock owners to do the same as well as acquire a new CEO and board of directors.

There were a few mistakes in the past when KW's were considered a commodity but nothing like the millions that this CEO and board came here and engineered for themselves.

I think Mr. Clyde Holloway sees through the scheme taking place.

Chris Hayne

Foley, AL

Ebola risk

One chance in a million in some cases is a very high probability. Two chances in a million cuts the odds in half.

Our foolish scientists accept odds far greater than one in a billion as a positive.

Yet these same scientists are willing to risk much lesser odds when it comes to our population.

I watched on television the good doctor with Ebola walking into an Atlanta, Georgia facility.

How easy it would have been for a terrorist to gun him down splattering blood and body fluids everywhere. That is one possibility; I could name a thousand.

Don't I want the doctor and nurse to survive? Absolutely! But what does that have to do with the price of beans in Peru.

Wake up people! There is nice; but there is also stupid.

Alva Z. Albright

Alexandria

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